Founded in 1995, Jilin Huaqiao University of Foreign Chinese and Foreign Studies, one of the top ten private universities, is one of the earliest private foreign language undergraduate colleges in China, the chairman unit of the non-profit private university alliance of the Ministry of Education, and a large-scale comprehensive language practice teaching base
Jilin Huaqiao University of Foreign Chinese is a key university in Jilin Province. The school was founded in 1995; In 2003, it was approved by the Ministry of Education as a private ordinary undergraduate college; In 2005, it obtained the right to confer bachelor's degrees and began to jointly recruit master's students. In 2007, it became the first and only "provincial key university" among private universities in the country; In 2010, it became the only pilot unit of the national education system reform - "exploring the mode of running non-profit private universities"; In 2011, with the approval of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, it became the first batch of private universities to train professional degree graduates (Master of Translation), and in 2013, it became the chairman unit of the non-profit private university alliance of the Ministry of Education.
The school is located in the beautiful Jingyuetan Tourist Scenic Area of Changchun City, covering an area of 703,000 square meters and a construction area of 230,000 square meters. The natural atmosphere surrounded by mountains and rivers on the campus is integrated with the architectural style of Chinese and Western, highlighting the unity of environment and humanities, and it is a modern "garden-style" school.
The university has 8,648 students (including full-time undergraduates, graduate students, and foreign students), and 762 faculty members, including more than 60 foreign experts, from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Japan, Germany, Spain, South Korea, Russia, Italy, Portugal, Egypt and other countries.
The school has 11 teaching units, including the School of Advanced Translation and Interpretation, the School of English, the School of Bilingualism, the School of Oriental Languages, the School of Western Languages, the School of International Economics and Trade, the School of International Business Administration, the School of Liberal Arts, the School of International Exchange, the School of Public Education, and the College of University English Education, and offers 10 foreign languages such as English, Japanese, German, French, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, etc., and has 4 master's degree programs in translation, international business, education, and teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages There are 26 undergraduate majors, covering four disciplines: literature, economics, management and education, forming an applied and compound talent training model of "dual foreign language", "foreign language major", "professional foreign language" and "minor language English". The school has national-level characteristic majors, national-level professional comprehensive reform pilots, national-level practical teaching demonstration centers, national-level off-campus practice bases for college students and national teaching achievement awards, 4 brand majors in Jilin Province, the number of characteristic majors above the provincial level accounts for one-third of the total number of majors in the school, 2 provincial-level key disciplines, 2 provincial-level research bases, 2 provincial-level talent training model innovation pilot areas, 3 provincial-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 10 provincial-level excellent teaching teams, and 6 provincial-level famous teachers. There are 19 provincial excellent courses and 31 provincial excellent courses.
At present, the university has cooperated with 101 universities and educational institutions in 19 countries and regions, sent nearly 500 students abroad every year for long-term and short-term language and cultural exchanges, and carried out study abroad programs such as undergraduate double degree and bachelor's and master's programs, and the proportion of students in some majors going abroad has reached 100%. At present, about 200 foreign students are accepted every year.
The school's teaching equipment is advanced and complete. In 2013, it was identified as a national experimental teaching demonstration center by the Ministry of Education and named "World Multicultural Education Center" by UNESCO. The school has a simultaneous interpretation hall, a digital speech room, a digital recording studio, a professional simulation laboratory, an office automation laboratory, a microcomputer laboratory, a multimedia classroom, a college student pioneer park, a multi-functional lecture hall, a plastic sports field, a gymnasium, an indoor swimming pool and other educational, teaching, cultural and sports facilities. The school library has 700,000 paper books, 500,000 electronic books, 334 paper Chinese periodicals, 31 foreign original journals and more than 5,700 electronic journals.
In more than ten years of school-running practice, the school has always adhered to the idea of putting social benefits first and taking the road of public welfare. The school is the first private university in the country to firmly propose public welfare school-running and no personal return, and it is the first and only private university to carry out property notarization.
The school has always adhered to the advanced school-running concept of "all for the sake of students' adulthood, success and success, so that Huawai will become a bridge for Chinese children to become talented and go to the world, and a bridge for the combination of Chinese and Western cultures", and strive to provide students with the most serious, responsible and best education; The school proposes that the school should be worthy of "the trust of parents, the time of students, the concern of society and the conscience of educators". Under the guidance of this ideology, the school adheres to the market-oriented, highlights the characteristics, works hard to improve internal skills, strengthens management, runs high-quality schools, and builds brands.
The school adheres to the education concept of "education-oriented, moral education first". In terms of students' ideological education and management, the "six-in-one" working mechanism of ideological and political education, mental health education, and student management has been implemented in which the three departments closely cooperate, penetrate each other, and form a joint force. Through this mechanism, cross-tenure has been achieved in the management system; Joint meetings have been introduced in the working system; Convergence and penetration have been achieved in the content of work. The school attaches great importance to the mental health education of students, and forms a complete mental health education system through the establishment of student psychological archives and the establishment of a three-level management network of schools, faculties, classes and dormitories. Pay attention to the combination of moral education, mental education, and physical education, and promote the physical and mental health development of students through psychological development training activities.
The school emphasizes the trinity of "knowledge, ability, and personality". With the main goal of cultivating students' comprehensive quality, the "Undergraduate Talent Training Specifications and Programs" has been formulated and implemented, and the knowledge objectives, ability objectives and quality objectives of students in the whole process from freshman to senior year have been scientifically designed. In the public elective courses, the number and types of humanistic quality courses have been increased, and the courses of Chinese studies have been added to cultivate students' patriotic sentiments. In addition, we have set up employment education, cultivation education, moral education, quality education, cultivation of practical ability and innovation ability, and mental health education.
The school focuses on the role of the second classroom. At present, there are 128 school-level professional clubs and 67 school-level comprehensive clubs. The school expands students' horizons and promotes students' physical and mental health and personalized development by organizing a variety of student club activities, college students' social practice activities, MMDS study groups, various competitions, various cultural and sports activities, lectures, international culture and art festival series activities, youth volunteer activities, "three to the countryside" activities, co-construction activities, visits to patriotic education bases, and love.
The school attaches great importance to the important role of social practice activities in cultivating the noble personality, broadening the scope of knowledge, and cultivating students' comprehensive ability and quality. Through the formulation and implementation of the Practical Teaching Guidelines, the Second Classroom Activities Guidelines and the Implementation Rules for the implementation of these two programs, the social practice of college students has been incorporated into the education and teaching plans.
The school implements the management model of "full staff, whole process, all-round and full accommodation". Advocate "teaching and educating people, managing educating people, serving educating people, and educating people in the environment". The school takes the construction of teacher ethics as the starting point, and leads the style of learning by grasping the style of teaching; Through the school spirit of "far-reaching, pragmatic and refined", the teaching style of "dedication and love for students, erudition and good guidance", the "three winds" construction of the school style of "self-improvement and self-discipline, seeking truth and innovation", and the "three modernizations" construction of "institutionalization, proceduralization and standardization", we will continuously strengthen the management quality and service level; The school vigorously carries out the unique campus culture construction with the main content of "being a simple person and doing things in a down-to-earth manner" and "the world's major events must be done in detail", creating a harmonious and warm campus environment.
In the past three years, the school's students have won 112 national awards and 269 provincial and municipal awards in various professional competitions. The political quality of the students has been continuously enhanced, with more than 54 percent of the students applying to join the party organization and the proportion of student party members reaching 6 percent. The campus is civilized and polite, and the good habit of respecting teachers and loving students has gradually formed. A large number of advanced collectives and outstanding individuals have emerged in the school, such as "provincial excellent class collectives, provincial and municipal civilized college students". Students' life goals and learning goals are clearer, the learning atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger, and "learning to Chinese well and doing a good Chinese" has become the student's life creed.
So far, nearly 18,000 students have graduated from the school. Graduates are widely welcomed by employers by virtue of their proficiency in foreign languages, proficient in management, professional understanding, strong listening and speaking skills, proficient in computer operation, good etiquette knowledge, strong sense of public relations, and high comprehensive quality. The employment rate of graduates has been rising year after year. In recent years, the one-time employment rate of undergraduate graduates has always remained above 96%, the professional matching rate has remained at about 85%, and 25% of the world's top 500 and top 100 enterprises in the industry. In recent years, there has been a marked change in students' concept of employment, and more and more graduates have joined the ranks of going to the countryside to serve as village officials and to start businesses in the western region.
Peng Peiyun, Gu Xiulian, former vice chairmen of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Yan Junqi, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Zhu Yongxin, vice chairman, Sun Zhengcai, former secretary of the Jilin Provincial Party Committee, Yuan Guiren, minister of education, Du Yubo, vice minister, Wang Rulin, former secretary of the Jilin Provincial Party Committee, Bayin Chaolu, secretary of the Jilin Provincial Party Committee, and other national and provincial leaders have come to the school to inspect and guide the work. The evaluation opinion of the undergraduate teaching evaluation expert group of the Ministry of Education on the school is: "This is a private university with a boundary, tasteful, pursuit, self-cultivation, sunshine and determination, and it is the banner of private colleges and universities in the country."
We firmly believe that under the inspiration of the spirit of "pioneering and innovative, having the courage to work hard, seeking 'public' and far-reaching, pursuing a hundred years, being pragmatic and refined, and combining strictness and meticulousness", through unremitting efforts and pursuits, Huawai people will be able to realize the dream of a century-old famous university and make greater contributions to the development of China's private universities.
